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...hundred of them-pimply youths, tough thugs, wild-eyed women-poured into the courthouse lobby and up the stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
...Palazzo Rezzonico, which the Porters leased from 1925 to 1929, was the scene of parties that would have done the Medici proud. At one affair, 50 gondoliers stood like statues along a winding stairway, 600 guests frolicked in fancy-dress costumes provided by Porter, and floodlights played on tightrope walkers overhead. Once Sergei Diaghilev brought his ballet company to dance Les Sylphides at a Porter garden party. Diaghilev insisted on a few props: fireworks, a 50-foot statue of Venus (which was hauled through the canals by two barges and set up in the garden), and 20,000 candles...
...ropes, Miss Heaton pointed out, are attached to small, high windows, and in some cases one is assigned to three students. She added that the twisting rear stairway of the house is poorly lighted and has no fire doors at all, and that the basement also lacks flame-blocking doorways...
There is also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...train at White Plains, N.Y. one morning last week tumbled 60 teen-aged boys of all shapes and sizes. In little knots, shouting to each other, they raced through the crowd of commuters on the platform and loped down the stairway at the north end, two steps at a time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...